FinnoSummit 2018 Performance – Mexico City
“all our choices are among life stories
that end with our individual deaths.”
Venkatesh Rao
every choice is a choice between
inside or outside the prison cell
PERSONAL REFLECTION
Your secret – No reporting
MEX
LISTEN
“If you are very very quiet
you can hear
the clouds rub against the sky”
Raul Gutierrez, Poet
I’d like
to do nothing for some time
be free
flying and gliding
like birds in the sky
left, right, up, down, up, down,…
defying centrifugal forces
unlimited by time, space, distance, force
like free painting
with myself as the paintbrush
and the sky as canvas
4-dimensional
playful like the birds,
showing little tricks,
challenge and pursue
but not limited
by any form of danger
SOUND
TIME
MEX
BRU
SFO
LOCATION
https://www.google.com/maps/@-27.4547261,-
103.4857855,13036150a,42.3y,270h/data=!3m1!1e3
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
© Simon Wardley
SENSITIVITY
POSITION & MOVEMENT
SENSITIVITY
MANOEUVRING CHANGE
SO, WHAT TO DO ?
CAN ORGANISATIONS CHANGE?
CAN PEOPLE CHANGE?
WHY WOULD
PEOPLE CHANGE?
STRUCTURE
WHAT IS STRUCTURE?
CAR
metaphor
“Structure drives flow drives behavior drives culture
drives change”
“Change is not hard with the right structure”
Structure has little to do with
reporting lines and P&L booking.
Structure is about patrimony
PATRIMONIO
HERITAGE-GOOD
PATRIMONY IS MEMORY
STRUCTURE IS MEMORY
VIDEO
SPACIAL MEMORY
PROCESS MEMORY
COLLECTIVE MEMORY
LISTENING
OBSERVING
ATTENDING
PERSONAL REFLECTION
Your secret – No reporting
MEX
LEARN
“Assume that the person you are listening to
might know something you don’t”
Jordan Peterson
Carving like Fontana
Calculated, bear-strong, one-time
Wistful sword
Molting hair to horse-head
Beaten, defeaten, dead
Lingering, languishing
Wringing her hair wet
Weary
Stalemate between blame and desire
Toka her platform
Ma her empty-ness, lithe-ness
Lite-ness, Light-ness, Full-less
Her canvas spins into infinity
GOD
Innocent
Apprentice
Mentor
Expert
Master
God
CALIBRATION
LEARNING SPACES
VIDEO
WORK
PLAY
LEARN
OFFICE SPORTSCLUB CLASS
WEEK SATURDAY SUNDAY
STAGES OF OUR LIFE
PARTS OF THE DAY/WEEK
PLACES
ADULT CHILD STUDENT
NATURAL EMERGENT
APPRENTICESHIP IN THE
BRANCH OFFICES
LEARNING IN THE WILD
LEARNING = GETTING BETTER
BETTER AT WHAT?
PLAYING THE GAME
© Simon Wardley
SKIN IN THE GAME
PRISON CELL
Alcatraz
“Evolution can only happen if risk of
extinction is present”
“There is no evolution
without skin in the game”
Nicholas Taleb
LEARNING
GAME PLAY
CONVERSING
PERSONAL REFLECTION
MEX
LEAD
“The first job of a leader is to learn.
Only then can a leader do their
second and third jobs — care and love ”
Umair Haque
Her body toned like that of a sweating racehorse
Her foals let go
Caressing feels like horse riding without bridles
Foaming at the mouth
A steeplechase till the horizon
Heading for the final turn
The finish line of a winner
VIDEO
DRIES VAN NOOTEN
What problem are you trying to solve?
vs.
Create what you truly want
CALIBRATION
LEADING
=
ORGANIZING AND
COORDINATING COHERENCE
COHERENCE
Narrative-Motives-Governance
NARRATIVE
ORGAN BUILDERS
MOTIVES
HIGH QUALITY
FLOWS
“A high quality flow is one where information transfer
is rapid, reliable, and noise free”
HUMAN NOISE
Almost every information flow
(word, sound, tone, dress, posture…)
Is a STATUS transaction
Reciprocity
Prestige
Self serving biases
Power
Hypocrisy
Arrogance and entitlement
“High quality flows need something else than speed,
reliability of noise-freedom.”
“There should be some
dimension/ambition/alignment of “Spiritual, moral
and aesthetical advancement”
Care
Tradition
Craftsmanship
Beauty
Proportion
Sacredness
Infinite games
LEADING
=
CULTIVATING
HIGH QUALITY FLOWS
GOVERNANCE
“As with any open plan office,
the facility has no privacy
and a focus on monitoring of behaviour.”
Simon Terry, about Cessnock Security Prison, Australia
HOPE
Mobs, Moles, Self-Formed Brigades
CITY
CASTLE & SANDBOX
LEADING
DECIDING
CULTIVATING
PERSONAL REFLECTION
Your secret – No reporting
MEX
LISTENING
OBSERVING
ATTENDING
LEARNING
GAME PLAY
CONVERSING
LEADING
DECIDING
CULTIVATING
THE GIFT
Create a Kasbah
Examine your structure
Eradicate conflict, create tension
Combine Patrimonio with Contemporary
Build coherence
of narrative, motives and governance
Cultivate high quality flows
Add a spiritual, moral, and aesthetical dimension
Create what you truly want
Get out of your prison cell
A big thank you to
The Organisers
Andres Fontao & Fermin Bueno
And the full FinnoSummit 2018 team
for letting me do this
All rights reserved
© Petervan 2018
@petervan
Finnosummit Mexico 2018 Petervan

Finnosummit Mexico 2018 Petervan

Editor's Notes

  • #3 WHO RECOGNISES THIS? Your organisation gets a new board, new executive teams, has re-orgs. In your change/innovation efforts you see an oscillating pattern of building up capacity, and then downsizing, and then, later, building up capacity again. The reason for that is structural CONFLICT. It’s sister dynamic is structural TENSION. That’s what this talk is about.
  • #4 Compelling event
  • #41 The Turin Papyrus Map was discovered at Deir el-Medina (Thebes, Egypt) by Bernardino Drovetti sometime before 1824 AD. It is now preserved in Museo Egizio(Turin, Italy). the map was drawn about 1160 BC by the well-known Scribe-of-the-Tomb Amennakhte, son of Ipuy. It was prepared for Ramesses IV's quarrying expedition to the Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert, which exposes Precambrian rocks of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. The purpose of the expedition was to obtain blocks of bekhen-stone (metagraywacke sandstone) to be used for statues of the king.
  • #57 Ableton Push for slides
  • #59 ABLETON PUSH AFTER THIS SLIDE
  • #71 ISE SHINTO SHRINE, JAPAN Rebuild every 20 years for around 1,300 years To preserve process knowledge
  • #73 Het Nationaal Museum in Rio de Janeiro, een van de belangrijkste musea van Brazilië en Zuid-Amerika, is zondagavond door een grote uitslaande brand verwoest. De autoriteiten vrezen dat het grootste deel van de museumcollectie verloren is gegaan.
  • #74 Het Nationaal Museum in Rio de Janeiro, een van de belangrijkste musea van Brazilië en Zuid-Amerika, is zondagavond door een grote uitslaande brand verwoest. De autoriteiten vrezen dat het grootste deel van de museumcollectie verloren is gegaan.
  • #80 RIGHT INSIDE (Back of BackCover)
  • #107 RIGHT INSIDE (Back of BackCover)
  • #108 START HALF WAY WITH ABLETON PUSH
  • #109 Story of the forbidden drummer
  • #110 The forbidden is sad. And then becomes angry, and protests
  • #114 Some years ago, I created an online movement “Corporate Rebels United” gathering more than 1,000 change agents. I have exhausted the rebel type. I have put off the mask of rebellion. It did not help me at all in being successful in and for the organization I worked for. It feels cool but does not create anything. It just challenges, makes aware, gives energy and stress, and structural conflict. Change within the organisation is not a grass roots movement. Over the years, we have seen that without the support and even demand of leadership, change will not be sustainable.
  • #116 EVERYTHING IMPORTANT HAS TO DO WITH AESTHETICS BIG DRIES EXPO 2 YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE MOST AESTHETIC ARREST MOMENTS ’Aesthetic Arrest’. It best describes the feeling we have when in the presence of a work of art, or any object of beauty, that has that ‘wow’ quality, that stops us in our tracks. We feel somehow altered by the encounter, taken outside of ourselves, elevated somehow KEY MESSAGE: BE A CREATOR OF MAGIC, the WOW QUALITY > BUT THAT REQUIRES PREP AND TENACITY I SAW IT WITH DRIES, I SAW IT WITH CHRISTO (ING EXPO BRUSSELS LAST WEEK)
  • #126 NEXT SLIDE IS ABLETON PUSH
  • #127 Ableton Push
  • #139 You don’ say “What a deep hamburger”, “What a deep drummer”
  • #142 You don’ say “What a deep hamburger”, “What a deep drummer”
  • #143 You don’ say “What a deep hamburger”, “What a deep drummer”